The article Psychiatric care of military families in the post-war Far East, written by Thomas Probert and published in The Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health can interest h-madness readers.

Here is the abstract:

“British military psychiatrists became responsible for the psychiatric care of military dependents in the Far East during the Malayan Emergency. In a survey of service psychiatry, two such military psychiatrists complained that there was no stigma attached to consulting with them and that psychological concerns resulting from the tropical climate were fashionable among women patients. The climate, along with the ongoing counterinsurgency, were instead thought of as precipitating factors that revealed a constitutional vulnerability to psychological ill health. In line with this thinking, the psychiatrists involved diagnosed psychoneurosis in the majority of women patients”.